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Old Salem hosts Fourth of July nationalization ceremony (pictured above: The new citizens take their oath on July 4th.) Old Salem Museum and Gardens kicked off a day of Fourth of July activities last Friday with a nationalization ceremony....

After 36 years as an educator in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System, Judith Whitmire-Bryant has left the classroom and the second grade students she taught for nearly four months at Easton Elementary School. Whitmire-Bryant taught...

Parents have been advised to expect their kids to bring home lower End-of-Course (EOC) and End-of-Grade (EOG) scores when they are released around Thanksgiving. Lower proficiency scores are expected statewide as a result of the implementation of...

“The Loving Story” took home the award for Outstanding Historical Programing (Long Form) at the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The screenwriter for the hit documentary is Bennett College alumna Susie Powell ’64, a former Bennett...

Words have power. Twins Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert “Al” Mills have carved their lives – and their careers – out of this simple belief. The brothers, otherwise known as the “Twin Poets” have traveled the world performing their spoken word...

New WFU program will focus on training people-friendly docs Wake Forest University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Pathway to Medicine Program aims to train a new generation of doctors who will treat patients holistically. The new program offers...

Carter G. Woodson School of Challenge students are headed to Kenya next week for a month-long excursion. It will be the first international trip for the local charter school, which educates students in grades K-12. “That’s one of the things I...

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber will be among the headliners at this year’s Bookmarks Festival of Books. He has penned more than a dozen short stories and books, including titles like “Torn Between Two Lovers” from his “The Big Girl...

Dr. Nkrumah Lewis, a Winston-Salem State University professor and author of “Becoming a Butterfly: From Prison to Ph.D.,” shared lessons from the School of Hard Knocks and the wisdom of an unconventionally broad spectrum of life experiences last...

Volunteers vow to serve as ­advocates for children More than a dozen volunteers took an oath Saturday on the campus of Winston-Salem State University to serve as advocates for children in court. For 30 years, the Guardian ad Litem (GAL) program,...